The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

Just when Hoffman's attention was drawn to the strange pair of men and women, he suddenly heard Bain Ruff explain to them in a low voice like a servant: "I've already gone to the appointed place to wait. , it was only discovered by someone, and the design was captured..."

"I know, it doesn't matter, as long as you can get here, it doesn't matter who leads the way, now you don't owe us anything." Leo interrupted Bain's explanation, and then said to the three guides on the side: "Now that you have arrived, you can leave. You must have experienced so many things. You should also want to see your relatives."

After hearing this, the three members of Powell's family looked at each other, and ran away in a panic as if they had been pardoned.

Leo ignored the others, but raised his head slightly, and looked at the main body of the Truber Mountain peak in front of him. Although his sight could not penetrate the clouds and mist entrenched on the mountainside, he could feel the light emitted from the clouds and mist. energy fluctuations.

"Did you feel it?" Leo asked Sylvia, "Is this the power of the abyss?"

Sylvia was silent for a moment, and said: "Yes and no." Then, she further explained: "This power is very similar to the power of the abyss, but it doesn't have the corrosive and chaotic nature of the power of the abyss. like..."

"It's like being purified." Leo took Sylvia's words and said.

"Yes, it was purified." Sylvia nodded in agreement.

Leo said with a confused face: "Can the power of the abyss also be purified?"

Sylvia said solemnly: "If it was before, I would say it was impossible, but now..."

Because the language used by Leo and Sylvia is French, Bain and Hoffman next to them couldn't understand their words, but they could also judge from their expressions and behavior that they should be talking about Tru Boshan, and also vaguely guessed that the purpose of the two may be to climb to the top of Truber Mountain.

In this regard, Bain and Hoffman showed two completely different expressions. Bain showed a very casual look, and he didn't care whether the two were going to climb Mount Truber. He cared more about his current situation. However, Hoffman showed an interested expression on his face, as if he also had some ideas.

Although the lumberjack family has lived at the foot of Truber Mountain for generations, and they all call themselves the Sons of Truber Mountain, but they know little about Truber Mountain, and they have never even been to the top of the mountain. It is only to go to the holy altar below the clouds and mist on the mountainside.

The lumberjack family has nothing but awe in their hearts about Mount Truber, and to climb to the top and see what the top looks like seems like an act of transcendence to them, but there are exceptions to everything, and the Hoffmans are all lumberjack families There was an exception among the members, but his exception perfectly covered up his thoughts without revealing them at all.

At a very young age, when Hoffman first participated in the family holy ceremony, he had wondered what the top of Truber Hill would look like, and wanted to know the secrets of Truber Hill and the logger family. When he grew up and he was able to explore by himself, he tried to cross the holy altar and enter the area behind the holy altar more than once.

But no matter how he tried, it ended in failure in the end. The clouds and mist covering Truber Mountain seemed to have a powerful force, turning the clouds and mist into an invisible wall, blocking all those who tried to climb the mountain, and keeping the top of the mountain and its secrets forever. Hiding behind the perennial clouds.

Hoffman has never given up on his idea of ​​climbing to the top of the mountain, but it is a pity that he has never been able to achieve his wish. He has never told this idea to outsiders, even to his closest people, because he knows very well that if he says this The idea of ​​what kind of consequences it will be.

Now, he found that the two strangers in front of him seemed to have the idea of ​​climbing to the top of Truber Mountain, which made him feel that this might be an opportunity, and what he had planned before might be carried out.

When Hoffman was considering the feasibility of what he had planned for many years, Leo also noticed Hoffman standing in front of him, holding a knight's long sword in his hand, although Hoffman's power was not worth it in his eyes It was mentioned, but the energy fluctuations emanating from Hoffman made Leo feel a little interesting, because the energy fluctuations on him were very similar to the energy fluctuations of Truber Mountain.

"Are you in trouble?" Leo asked Bain, who looked a little embarrassed, "Do you need my help?"

"No need, this is my own business." Bain quickly replied, then turned around and said to Hoffman, "Do you still want to arrest me now?"

Hoffman came back to his senses, fell silent for a moment, did not answer directly, but asked, "What are you going to do?"

Bain said expressionlessly: "Since those guys dared to arrest me, they must have discussed it with some people in the family. I, the patriarch, intend to go back and rectify the Lufu family."

Hoffman did not stop Bain, but retracted the knight's long sword into the scabbard, and stood aside, not only hinting to Bain that he would not stop him from leaving, but also seemed to imply that he would not stop Leo and Sylvie Ya move on.

After seeing Hoffman's actions, Bain nodded to Hoffman, then saluted Leo and Sylvia, and rushed into the thick fog with his companion beast.

"Let's go too!" Leo said to Sylvia, and the two walked along the avenue of the mountain city, towards the direction of the holy altar.

When the two left, Hoffman did not follow behind, but returned to the square from a small road. At this time, the square had not fully recovered from the chaos just now. Seeing Hoffman coming back alone, he thought Hoffman failed to catch Bane.

Although they also complained about this result, they did not dare to blame Hoffman too much. After all, the only person in the entire mountain city who is capable of dealing with Bain is Hoffman. If Hoffman quit because of their blame , Bane killed him again at this time, and those of them who are not good at fighting can only become fish to be slaughtered.

Hoffman comforted everyone, saying that Bain would not return to the mountain city in a short time, and then he ordered the old Bjorn's body to be preserved, and told them very clearly that there was something strange about the old Bjorn's death , Bane may have been framed.

After giving these instructions, he did not make any further persuasion to the crowd, but asked the people of the Mountain City Defense Team to continue to maintain the law and order in the city, and he would leave for a while.

After that, without any further explanation, he left the square and returned to his own home. He quickly put some climbing items he had prepared before into his backpack and carried them on his back.

After putting on his backpack, he left his house, took a detour, and arrived at the house of the head of the Panshi family.

Because at this moment, the patriarch and several other members of the Panshi family are trapped in the thick fog outside the mountain city, and will not return for a short time, and no one lives here.

I saw Hoffman go directly into the back room, and then quickly came to the patriarch's bedroom, found the safe under the floor on one side of the corner, entered the password, opened the safe, and took out the treasure that only the patriarch of the lumberjack family is qualified to keep. Holy deed, received it in the backpack.

After doing all this, he restored the things, went directly over the wall on the side of the courtyard, and then found a path that few people would walk, left the mountain city, bypassed the road leading to the holy altar, climbed It took almost half an hour to go up the extremely rugged and steep mountain road, and the super short road came to a slightly protruding rock near the holy altar.

People standing at this position can just see the situation of the holy altar, and because of the obstruction of the rocks and the visual barrier caused by the poor terrain, the people on the holy altar can't see the people here, so they can safely observe the holy altar here. Everything about the altar.

Hoffman had found this spot by accident before, in order to observe how the Holy Sacrifice opened the cloud.

He had tried going directly into the clouds before, thinking that the clouds that hung over Mount Trube, like those that hung over the outlying forests, would only affect people who were not of the logger family, but after repeated attempts, he Discovering his identity will not bring him any convenience, as long as he enters the clouds, he will lose his way.

Moreover, the road in the clouds and mist is more rugged and dangerous than the outside, and he almost stumbled and died there many times. If he hadn't been well prepared, coupled with his own natural ability, it seemed that he could get inspiration from Truber Mountain itself and find a place to leave. The way, maybe he has been trapped in the clouds and mist.

After many attempts, he found that the way of groping forward alone could not help him reach the top of the mountain, so he could only look back to see if the lumberjack family had a way to walk freely in the cloud area.

After several years of undercover observation and secret exploration, he really discovered that the Lumberjack family did have a way to enter the cloud area.

It turns out that it's not that the members of the lumberjack family cannot go to the cloud area above the holy altar, but they need a very special method to allow people to enter the cloud area without losing their way. Qi opened the way.

He accidentally discovered this method after spying on the holy deed ceremony performed by the Crowley family, and he also discovered that not all the lumberjack families knew this method, only the two or three lumberjack families who stood at the top in the early days. Knowing this method, the Crawley family is one of them.

At that time, he had seen Patch with his own eyes more than once after presiding over the sacrificial ceremony of the Crowley family, and then quietly turned back alone, and then took out some seemingly unconnected ores, animal internal organs, roots of trees, and nearby swamps Using these methods to perform a mysterious sacrificial ceremony, I saw that the holy deed seemed to be inspired by the ceremony, projecting a light on Patch, and then Patch walked into the clouds middle.

After about an hour or two, Patch came out of the cloud again, but this time Patch made him feel a little different. The most obvious feeling was that Patch's strength seemed to have improved a lot.

There are patriarchs of two other families like Paqi, but after they entered the cloud, they did not come out with improved strength like Paqi, but they had something more in their hands, sometimes a book , sometimes it's a box with something in it, no matter what it is, it can be seen from their tense attitude that those things are very precious.

After watching this kind of ceremony many times, Hoffman wrote down the whole process of the ceremony, and also wrote down the things needed for the ceremony, and prepared a copy early, but he never had the chance to try it out.

The holy deed is a special item that can only be mastered by the patriarch of a lumberjack family. Basically, it can be said to be a token of the patriarch. Even a martial arts master like Hoffman is not qualified to take it, and the holy deed has a mysterious connection with the patriarch. If the deed was taken by someone else, the patriarch would definitely know about it, so unless Hoffman was against the whole family, or even the entire lumberjack family, it was impossible for him to obtain the holy deed silently.

This time, those members of the family had an accident, and he felt more lucky in his heart. He didn't have much sense of identity with the family, and thought that the family would disappear if it disappeared. It was just the education he had received since he was a child, which made him unable to take the initiative to make things better. The disappearance of the family, now that Truber Hill has helped him complete this matter, he will not feel guilty or sad, he just needs to accept the final fruit. If there is no accident, he will become the last member of the family, and It was a matter of course to get the holy deed, fulfilling his long-cherished wish for many years.

However, there was an accident in the middle of the matter. The dense fog was not as deadly as he thought. Some people who were trapped in the dense fog before came out safely one after another in the past two days. A few issues, but generally nothing life-threatening.

This also made him have to suspect that the patriarch of his family and others could also walk out of the thick fog smoothly. In that case, the things he was looking forward to had to be pushed back.

This also made him consider whether to take a gamble, forcibly take away the family holy deed, and then use that method to enter the cloud area, fulfill his long-cherished wish, and then leave here and never come back, but if he does this, he has no room for redemption However, if this method still does not allow him to reach the top of the mountain and see the secrets of Truber Mountain, then he will never have a second chance in the future.

At this moment, two outsiders, Leo and Sylvia, appeared and expressed their intention to climb Mount Truber. This was equivalent to giving Hoffman an extremely perfect target. The theft of the deed was pushed to these two people, and he, no matter whether he finally climbed to the top of Truber Mountain and discovered the secret of the lumberjack family, he would not have any problems, and he would still be able to stay in the mountain city and become his martial arts master. Captain, captain of the defense.

Thinking of this, Hoffman couldn't help laughing out loud, but he quickly stabilized his excitement, and checked out the items prepared in the backpack one by one, lest when it was time to perform the ceremony, he found that there were missing items. what.

Just after Hoffman checked his things, the two strangers, Leo and Sylvia, were like two tourists who came here to play, walking step by step along the bluestone steps built by the ancestors of the lumberjack family. Went to the holy altar.